Either way great news considering EA, or SimCity devs, one of the two said it was impossible to get SimCity to run offline - clearly bull**** and a challenge to the modding community; a bad idea imo lol

And all these ways go against how the game was designed - which you knew when you bought it (or should have).

So tell me again - in what way did Maxis or EA lie, if you are having to mod/hack to get something you CLAIM is supported by the game from the jump?

There are people that buy games and play them with cracks, trainers, mods and hacks for various reasons. As long as those things don't affect others, it shouldn't be an issue. Why is this an issue to you?

when the offline patch is perfected, then i would buy the SimCity 'online'.

All I am saying is that as much as both EA and Maxis have been saying that the game was going to require an online connection, that should have set off the alarms - if you bought the game ANYWAY, that's not the fault of either EA or Maxis - it means that you didn't do your due-dilligence; anything else is basically blaming the developer/publisher for telling the truth.

i do want the 'SimCity' part while loathing the 'online' part, but i can't really buy just one part i like, can i?
and that why i'll wait until the 'offline' patch to be perfected, before i buy the game.